THE NEW YORKER Honest, if not heirloom, worth ap- pears, too, in a mahogany commode you can turn into a dressing table which is perfect for a smallish room. This is at Reits, a glassware store at 613 Lexing- ton Avenue (53rd). The little thing is compact and practical as can be, with a lift-up top that has a mirror on its un- derside. The owner sits before this as if it were a real full-size poudreuse while she uses the array of makeup and mani- cure tools that come into view when the top goes up. The mirror is lighted, there's a plug for an electric hair-curler, and down below is a drawer made to hold cleansing tissues. The piece real- ly wouldn't be bad as a sofa table in cramped quarters, and it could be useful in a guest bathroom or dressing closet, too. Reits sells it for $21.5 O. S INCE It'S too early to suspect that in- cipient spring is in the air, inquiries about that repair place which gets men- tioned here from time to time can only indicate uncommonly heavy holIday toll among household goods, some of it only now coming to light. The name, any- way, is Repairs, Inc., at 20 East 57th Street. They fix clocks, musical instru- ments, scarred table tops, and carpets with cigarette burns in them. They can also do all the hard things, like mending tortoiseshell, old lace, damaged paint- ings, and bric-a-brac that's broken into anything short of fragments; if it's a rare old piece, worth the trouble, they'll attack even scraps that look like a jig- saw puzzle. It is very difficult "to stump Repairs, Inc.; indeed, I don't know that it ever has been done. D OROTHY DRAPER'S new book, "Entertaining Is Fun!," is even more convincing than her first, "Deco- rating Is Fun!," which a couple of years ago made an astonishing lot of women think they were as good decorators as anyone else. "Then you reach the end of this second volume, you'll want to get right up and give a party, but since a party lasts only a few hours and gener- ally can be forgotten by everybody con- cerned in a couple of weeks, "Entertain- ing Is Fun!" should prove a far less dangerous book than its forerunner to loose on the public. -B. B. MAR.KE T S AND MENUS Plain and Wholesome T o listen to some of our high-toned authorities on food and drink, one would think that nobody ever ate a scrap except at dinner parties and that the possibility of there being men and W01l1- 53 "Here's tae th' kilt An' th' loch an' th' heather; Here's tae th' friends Ne'er known as 'fair-weather' ." ) "%Õ': <"h .'t/' -s .>>: .:, '<::_:.: : \.:. . - .-.": :'::'/::':'''. - -J: .". t -.>/: . -.1 t. ,' J ffi ,. . R ::r-: Jk \" : v { .,- ',l .: l" ..-\: : : . : \ ...:::.;".. ":;:-*.. ":..:-. t IB! , -t,: ".;.-" , . :.<t .". ":. :::. !: " No fair-weather friend is Teacher's Scotch. What- '.. ."Þ" . .. Z:1 ' : ::.. .", \ ; '-;\' i ..., . '. . ) ..-. ..../.:....-.;...- ..- . _: ,.'.. ....... \: '. ::: .'01 : .::. :.. t. . '.' ever your mood, this gra- cious wl1isky sl1ares with you its own fine quality of companionship. . . . .;:... . . :,., t; :.:. : .:J:;; ::. :::":.: . ;$ ':" .:';:;;" .:.:., <".'1f".:,;: i ý: .:4 . :jiJ ,,;...,.:. ;9:'::"" , , .,. "1 oJ' 'Þ.. ,: . ;:,,,..... ." * :.:. :... r . ::';. ..... '.:. ."', ,..>, .'." II : :. ......... .........x :... ::' :.; :. "'.. :r. . .< // . 86 PROOF ','.1 " < . --,: . . ; . . . . 1!ß-;.. .' ..., ....."..,,:... - I Perfèction of Blended SCOTCH WHISKY Made since 1830 by Wrt1. Teacher & Sons, Ltd., Glasgow SOLE U. S. AGENTS: Schieffelin & CO., NEW YORK CITY. IMPORTERS SINCE 1794